Depression decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include persistent depressive disorder with generalized anxiety disorder and insomnia, for an adequate VA examination.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for depression to correct a duty to assist error, requiring a VA medical opinion.

The Board granted an initial 70 percent evaluation for the service-connected psychiatric disability and a TDIU, but denied other claims related to earlier effective dates and burial expenses.

The Board granted an effective date prior to February 26, 2024, for a 70 percent rating for major depressive disorder with anxious distress and denied an initial compensable rating for hypothyroidism. Service connection was also granted for chronic kidney disease as secondary to service-connected hypertension.

The appeal of the issue of entitlement to service connection for depression is dismissed due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder, based on the Veteran's in-service sexual assault.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and remanded the claims for other conditions due to insufficient evidence.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for a mental illness, to include schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board remands the issue of service connection for depression, to include any acquired psychological disorder, for a VA examination.

The Veteran's appeal for increased ratings and service connection was dismissed due to a late filing.

The appeal for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and persistent depressive disorder was withdrawn by the appellant's representative.

The Board granted service connection for depression as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right knee patellofemoral pain syndrome.

The Board grants service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board granted service connection for degenerative disc disease of the thoracolumbosacral spine and assigned a 70 percent rating from November 15, 2022, for depressive disorder.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, but remanded the claims for hypertension, prostate disorder, heart disorder, psychiatric disorder, diabetes, stomach disorder, and low back disorder.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 70 percent for other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder with subclinical features of PTSD and major depressive disorder, as well as a compensable rating for erectile dysfunction. The remaining issues were remanded.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition other than PTSD due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The issues of entitlement to a compensable rating for major depressive disorder with alcohol dependence prior to November 7, 1996, and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to April 10, 2009, are remanded due to incomplete development.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder, finding a nexus between the Veteran's in-service stressor and his current diagnosis.

The Board denied an effective date prior to September 5, 2023, for a 100 percent rating for MDD and SMC based on housebound criteria. However, it granted service connection for right ear painful scar, right ear surgical scar, and sleep apnea with an effective date of November 30, 2020.